The secret of a great comedy is to slowly build the tension and then release it with a punchline.
Seriousness is the grave of wisdom.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs; jolted by every pebble in the road.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Seriousness is the only legitimate weapon of power.
Seriousness is often a camouflage for stupidity.
Seriousness is a disease of the ego.
Serious people have an air of strangulation about them.
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
Life is much too serious to be taken seriously.
Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance—it is the illusion of knowledge.
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
Seriousness is a virtue of small minds.
In the end, everything is a gag.
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.